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Office Depot said Tuesday it plans to close 400 U.S. stores, with 150 stores slated to close in 2014. The company has multiple stores in Hampton Roads. Boca Raton-based Office Depot completed its $1.2 billion merger with OfficeMax last year. The office-supply store closures relate to overlapping Office Depot and OfficeMax retail stores in some locations. Office Depot has one store each in Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, according to the online store locator. OfficeMax has a store each in Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk and Norfolk and multiple stores in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. Chief Executive Roland Smith said the store closures will...

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Office Depot said Tuesday it plans to close 400 U.S. stores, with 150 stores slated to close in 2014. The company has multiple stores in Hampton Roads.
Boca Raton-based Office Depot completed its $1.2 billion merger with OfficeMax last year. The...

The Hampton City Employees Credit Union, which has one branch office in City Hall, is exploring a merger with BayPort Credit Union.
"We're in the process of pursuing a merger opportunity with BayPort," Hampton City Employees Credit Union...

NEWPORT NEWS — Cheers could be heard from outside the Peninsula Fine Arts Center Monday evening after members gave the green light to merge with Christopher Newport University.
"It's very important for the future of the community and the two...

NEWPORT NEWS — Angela Herring, a member of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, said she's concerned about what the future holds for PFAC after its members approved a merger with Christopher Newport University Monday evening.
Herring was one of just a...

As part of our coverage of the 2013 Gloucester County Board of Supervisors election, we asked all seven candidates four questions via email.
We are printing their answers in their entirety online here in the Gloucester Blog prior to the Nov. 5...

The U.S. Department of Justice and several states, including Virginia, announced a settlement agreement Tuesday allowing the merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines, creating the largest commercial airline in the country.
As a result of the...

Kroger's merger with Harris Teeter is now complete, company executives said in a press release on Wednesday.
The Federal Trade Commission approved the $2.5 billion deal earlier this month, clearing the way for the final closing stages. Hampton Roads is...

WILLIAMSBURG — Pre-med students at the College of William & Mary might be able to stay with their alma mater for medical school.The college will consider merging with Eastern Virginia Medical School to create the W&M School of Medicine, the...

After years of airline mergers that have dramatically reduced choices for travelers, the U.S. Justice Department has sued to halt what would be the largest airline marriage in U.S. history.
The Justice Department joined six states and the District of...

The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement agreement to allow the merger of American Airlines and US Airways to form the nation's largest air carrier.
The department, which sued in August to stop the merger, said that as...

Now that Southwest Airlines has completed its $1 billion purchase of AirTran Holdings, executives have launched the longer-term process of merging the two brands, retraining employees, rolling out larger aircraft, giving makeovers to AirTran planes...

Since becoming a part of the University of Maryland Medical System three years ago, Upper Chesapeake Health has attracted new doctors, broken ground on a new $60 million cancer center and won over patients who once left Harford County for care.
Upper...

Financially troubled St. Joseph Medical Centermay soon become part of a hospital system that does not follow its strict Catholic beliefs on abortion and reproductive rights.
The Towson hospital's owner, Catholic Health Initiatives, put it up for sale...

St. Joseph Medical Center is looking to partner with other hospitals as it continues to lose patients and revenue in the wake of problems with its lead cardiologist — a move that experts say might even lead to a merger.
The Towson hospital has asked...

In a stunning move that could forever alter one of Chicago's most enduring business icons, Kmart Holding Corp. pounced on Sears, Roebuck and Co. today in a $11 billion merger.
The new Sears Holdings Corp. will become the nation's third-largest retailer...

Harry Stonecipher still remembers the red binder packed with damaging documents.
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"What obstacles will you overcome today?"
The spirit and mission of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture - as well as its sometimes difficult journey toward a June 25 opening - are neatly encapsulated...